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Wahoo! Ron Livingston, of Office Space and Sex and the City fame, is going to be on the fall television schedule. Ahead of next week's upfronts, FOX has announced that it picked up Primary for the fall. The drama stars Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt as hostage negotiators with the hots for each other.

FOX is also picking up American Crime, starring Alias veteran Victor Garber as part of an ensemble cast. The show is about high-profile defense attorneys. Good. Someone needs to counter all the adoration for prosecuting attorneys happening over at NBC on four different Law & Order franchises.

Now that pilot season is wrapping up,
it's casting season in L.A., where mega-stars or yet-to-be-discovered actors sign on to all sorts of new shows in hopes
that the networks will pick them up for the fall line-up. There are a lot of big names this time around. Check it
out:

Heather Locklear is in negotiations for a leading role in the ABC comedy pilot, Women of a Certain Age.
Locklear would play a recently widowed woman who starts a new life with her two best friends.

Ron
Livingston (Sex and the City, Office Space) is one of two leads in a FOX drama called
Primary, which is about a male and a female hostage negotiator who balance their love lives with their
jobs.

Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) has agreed to star in CBS' Waterfront, as the
charismatic and "ethically-challenged" mayor of Providence, R.I.

Steven Culp, previously known
as Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives, will appear in the ABC drama, Traveler, about three Yale
graduate students who become a national security risk when one of them frames the other two for an art museum
bombing.

Swoosie Kurtz will take on a supporting role in the CBS comedy, Play Nice, which stars
Timm Sharp and Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) as a brother and sister who run a toy company.

Jonah
Lotan, who has been playing Spenser Wolff this season on 24, will take on a role on the FOX thriller,
Beyond, which is about the space race.